TROX vs. MTX, KRO, LXU, VHI, NL, LXFR, HGAS, LIN, VNTR, and APD
Should you be buying Tronox stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tronox include Minerals Technologies (MTX), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), LSB Industries (LXU), Valhi (VHI), NL Industries (NL), Luxfer (LXFR), Global Gas (HGAS), Linde (LIN), Venator Materials (VNTR), and Air Products and Chemicals (APD). These companies are all part of the "industrial inorganic chemicals" industry.
Minerals Technologies (NYSE:MTX) and Tronox (NYSE:TROX) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, dividends and profitability.
Minerals Technologies has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tronox has a beta of 1.83, meaning that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Minerals Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $68.50, indicating a potential downside of 18.71%. Tronox has a consensus target price of $18.00, indicating a potential downside of 7.88%. Given Minerals Technologies' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Tronox is more favorable than Minerals Technologies.
Minerals Technologies has a net margin of 4.35% compared to Minerals Technologies' net margin of -11.93%. Tronox's return on equity of 10.87% beat Minerals Technologies' return on equity.
Tronox received 32 more outperform votes than Minerals Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.08% of users gave Tronox an outperform vote while only 52.93% of users gave Minerals Technologies an outperform vote.
Minerals Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Tronox pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Minerals Technologies pays out 13.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tronox pays out -22.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Minerals Technologies has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Tronox is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Minerals Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tronox. Tronox is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Minerals Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
97.3% of Minerals Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.4% of Tronox shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Minerals Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Tronox shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Tronox had 3 more articles in the media than Minerals Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Tronox and 3 mentions for Minerals Technologies. Tronox's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat Minerals Technologies' score of 0.73 indicating that Minerals Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Minerals Technologies beats Tronox on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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